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December 01, 2006
Blind, Blinder, Blinders: Tracing US-Iraq Foolishness
A nice essay discussing the bizarre thinking on Iraq and the self-destructive post-invasion actions done by the US Administration can be found at the New York Review of Books, in the course of a review of several books reconstructing the developments. Some stuff:
[Bremer] had had nothing to do with the meager and inadequate planning the Pentagon had done for "the postwar" and indeed had had only a few days' preparation before being flown to Baghdad. He apparently never saw the extensive plans the State Department had drawn up for the postwar period. And as would become evident as the occupation wore on and he became more independent of the Pentagon civilians, he had no particular qualifications to make and implement decisions of such magnitude, decisions that would certainly prolong the American occupation and would ultimately do much to doom it.
Thanks again, via Jim Henley.
Posted by Matthew Hogan at December 1, 2006 07:03 PM
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